The corpus record

πᾰλαιστικός

palaistikos

expert in wrestling

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

expert in wrestling, the art of wrestling

expert in wrestling, Arist. Rh. 1361b24, Luc. Dear.Iud. [DDeor. 20.]14, etc.; ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of wrestling, Paus. 1.39.3, etc. Adv. -κῶς Poll. 3.149: Comp. -ώτερον Philostr. Gym. 35.

II suited for wrestling

suited for wrestling, ἰσχύς Plu. Sanit. 2.130b; στέρνα -ώτερα Philostr. Gym. 35; cf. παλαιστρικός.

In the wild

παλαιστικός · palaistikos Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
παλαιστικῶν · palaistikōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4687)
παλαιστικός · palaistikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4687)
παλαιστικῇ · palaistikēi Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.61.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1113)

Where it came from

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